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The Japanese agreement to surrender is supposedly to save the rest of the world due to the US' use of nuclear weaponry. The implication was that the US would continue to use such a tool at the expens ...

Human expendability is sickening. What I took away from the readings was Japan's nonexistent value of an individual solider's war effort. How can you expect to maintain morale when there is no feeling ...

Nogi Harumichi was driven by hatred, an unrelenting, human emotion. He despised the pilots he sentenced to death. Regret would only be a product of initial reluctancy. He understood the illegality of ...

Language is a weapon. In modern society we have corporate executives using words with deceitful intentions. Countless amounts of speeches, statements, documents etc are littered with complex vocabular ...

Primary sources are prone to bias especially personal accounts. Important events may be reflected in a negatively due to the author's current emotional state or resentment towards the subject matter. ...

I would say the Machurian Incident due to it's being the first of a series of vicious attacks provoked by Japan. The Manchurian Incident revealed the Japanese inclination to cause conflict due to lack ...

Although, the exercising of Japan's political presence within Korea seemed to display a lack of sensitivity for the situation. Reforming a country in your accord is a delicate process which Japan appr ...

Basically, this post combines the information of the chapters read prior as well as the one for tonight. Through Commodore Perry, American influence over the Meiji Constitution, etc, Japan absorbs a s ...

Yes, the Meiji Constitution doesn't introduce new forms of power to the people, it only reaffirms any rights they had prior in text. In order to circumvent any disagreement with the new abilities bein ...

Yes, the Meiji Constitution doesn't introduce new forms of power to the people, it only reaffirms any rights they had prior in text. In order to circumvent any disagreement with the new abilities bein ...

Due to Japan's past isolation to global change, it is vital that they remain connected with their neighbors. Due to being in Asia, they will most likely receive the greatest amount of influence from A ...

Class and abortion have a strange relationship in my opinion. The reading describes "the presence of so many "elegantly dressed" women" at a KPD protest. Women of all classes unite ...

The reading claimed Hitler could be "controlled", implying he had power to be "controlled". Germany requires power in order to recover from its crippled state, therefore a risk, su ...

If this is a valid response, even though they are not a specific class, the soldiers returning from the war were in a terrible position. Not only have they experience a devastating/brutal blow to the ...

There was no balance within Germany. The extreme bias towards the right allowed murders to be committed without serious penalties. As the reading says, the judges were completely responsible for the d ...